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...BENNY WATERS, 96, jazz's ebullient elder statesman who toured with and taught some of the genre's greats; in Columbia, Md. A saxophonist, clarinetist and arranger, Waters was playing jazz before jazz was officially created. In the '20s and '30s he played nightclubs in New York City's Harlem with Benny Carter, among others, and was a member of the house band at the Apollo Theatre; but partly because of his legendary carousing, he never achieved the fame enjoyed by many of his colleagues. Blind from failed cataract surgery since 1992, he continued his hectic international touring schedule until...
Hugh Price, president of the National Urban League, says that while other reports had hinted at the coming good news, "we were caught by surprise." So what may be causing the U turn? The experts aren't exactly sure, but a day spent traversing the neighborhood of Harlem in New York City suggests some interesting answers. Don't credit welfare reform. The new federal law didn't take effect until 1996; the study shows a decline in birthrates since 1989. Fear of AIDS, however, may be a contributing factor. Charles Taylor, director of teen programs at the Harlem YMCA...
...early '70s, his parents moved to Sound View to escape the more "densely populated" Harlem. Evans says he now feels a tremendous sense of loyalty to Sound View, what he calls his "home sweet home," to childhood friends and early basketball teammates. They were the kids on the block who played "manhunt" and "hot peas and butter" with him, some of whom later became his buddies, taking teenage trips to movies and clubs throughoutthe city...
This morning I went to Mott Hall, a school in Harlem, and met with sixth-graders who are using laptop computers. You have to see to believe how laptops have brought the classroom to life. I then went to the New York Public Library for a question-and-answer session with TV interviewer Charlie Rose...
...whose presence, in turn, would help make the city into Modernism's center of gravity in the '50s. New York was the world's "shock city," and would remain so for decades to come--not least because it harbored such cultural variety. Another sign of this was the Harlem Renaissance, permeated by America's greatest indigenous American musical forms, jazz and the blues...